Two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on the popular Thai resort island of Phi Phi may have been the victims of "serious food poisoning", police said on Sunday.

"Forensic officials found vomit in the room, blood on their lips and gums and their fingernails and toenails were blue," Pol Lt Col Rat Somboon of Krabi Provincial Police said, adding there were "signs of serious food poisoning".

In May 2009, American Jill St Onge, 27, and Norwegian Julie Michelle Bergheim, 22, died in similar circumstances while staying in adjoining rooms at the Laleena guesthouse.

Despite pathology tests in Norway and the US, the women's cause of death has never been determined.

Can't remember which one, but there is a type of food poisoning that eats holes in your stomach. That could cause the bleeding. I'm thinking the same this as Rog except I'm not so sure it was an accident. Not if this has happened a few times before. And who knows how many other time have not made the news? Also, if they were so sick they were vomiting blood, why didn't they call for a help?

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(06-17-2012, 09:10 PM)Kreeper Wrote: Can't remember which one, but there is a type of food poisoning that eats holes in your stomach. That could cause the bleeding. I'm thinking the same this as Rog except I'm not so sure it was an accident. Not if this has happened a few times before. And who knows how many other time have not made the news? Also, if they were so sick they were vomiting blood, why didn't they call for a help?

G'mornin' kreeper

when i was poisoned by the Honey Trap Laurel

there was no way i could get off the floor to make a call

the pain,,, cripples a person

millions of little nerve endings in the intestine ,,, and when they are on fire,,,

Good call Rog'. I'm certain they didn't test for rat poison. Usually they contain warfarin and brodifacoum, two drugs responsible for thinning the blood. Brodifacoum, in particular, is highly lethal. God knows what they use in Thailand, but guess what?

This is not the first...This was published back in May 2011

Quote:Rat poison is among the latest theories surrounding the mystery deaths of several tourists in northern Thailand.

A 23-year-old New Zealand student, two elderly Britons and a 48-year-old Thai tour guide had all been staying at the Downtown Inn Hotel in Chiang Mai, 800 kilometres north from Bangkok, before their mysterious deaths in recent months.

Reports from New Zealand have suggested they were poisoned by a chemical used to kill bedbugs, but a senior Thai physician has told AAP that forensic investigations were widening to include insecticides capable of killing rodents.
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Dr Surasing Visaruthrat, a deputy director at the Chiang Mai Public Health Office, said investigations had widened beyond the initial theory that a bedbug killer spray containing chlorpyrifos was responsible for the deaths.

Dr Surasing said investigations covered three hypotheses focused on a potential virus, chemical contamination or environmental factors that led to the deaths and illness.